Hosiery-finishing apparatus.



Patented May 28,1918

Qwmntoz \\IIIIIIIIIII I. G. PROSSER.

HOSIERY FINISHING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED APR-6.1918.

"ir or JOSEPH G. PlEttIlElS'Elit, Oh CHICAGU, ILLIN 01S, ASSIGNOH TU PARAMO'LTW DRYING: 60., OF CHICAGO. ILLINOIS, 1-1. CORPORATKUN F T HQEIIIERY F GEM HQSIEItY-FINISHING AIPPARAJEUS.

Specification. of Letters Patent.

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Application filed April 6, 191a. Serial No, cameo.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that l, Jossrrr G; .lPuoseunn.

a citizen of the United States. residing); at Chicago, in the county of (fool: and chute of 5 Illinois, have invented certain new and use ful ll'nproveineuts in HoiseryFinishing ftpparatus, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

110 This invention relates hroadly to hosiery finishing apparatus and more especially to structures for drying and shaping sir-culled. full-fashioned hosiery.

Generally defined, full-fashioned ho= 1L5 siery is a. type which is knit in sheet foriuas distinguished from tubular knittiugr and according to a particular shape which. the goods Will assume when the seam-edges are sewed together. When that is done. a

seam extendingfroni the toe to the top of the stocking is made. Prior to the invention of John H, Brine, as covered in United States Patent No. 1,218,520, granted March 6, 1917, it Was usually the practice to board full-fashioned hosiery on solid drying forms in such a manner that rights and lefts Were produced; this name arising from the fact that the seam would, by the boarding, be thrown to the right or the left so of a longitudinal line.

More or less satisfactory results have been secured by the use of the aforementioned Brine invention; but I have devised certain improvements which, in oractieal as use, have proved to be out censiddl'ahle im -,portance. l have found that, instead seating the hosiery seam in an edge-groove as is contemplated in the atorenderitioned Brine patent, novel and unexpected resuits is have been achieved by lining; the seam upon a flattened surface at the edge of a drying and shaping form, the point thereof being to shape the seam into a crease "formation. It is, therefore, the object of my invens5 tion to provide, in a drying and shaping form, a surface so formed and related to the sides of that form that the seam shall, itself, be formed up into a crease of relatively re duced thickness.

To this end, ll provide a drying and shap ing'structure which has its front portion with a creaseproducing edge, While the on Patented Ma r d.

posite edge is flattened to produce :1 scaluengaging surface whereby the scum oi the goods is internally lined up and set with 5 a crease formation, the setting: resulting fI'Oll'htllG ironing eiifect of the edge oi? the form on the seam and the rapid evaporation of the moisture in the seam.

.ln order that my invention may he read 6d il y comprehended, l. append hereto draw ings which are intended to he illustintiye oi one practical and preferred embodiment of the inventirm;- it being umlersloml, how ever, that this may he considerably modified as without departing from the principle of the invention or sacrificing; any of its advantngrcs,

lfn these drawings,

Figure l is a View in perspective of an internally-hented hosiery-drying and shapingr form with a full-fashicne l stocking; superposed thereon, a portion of the latter being cut away to disclose, first, the seanr engaging surface of the term and, also, the "/5 relation thereto of the seam of the, goods;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary View in transverse section thereof; and

Fig. 3 is likewise aviiragnientary view on.

a very much larger scale.

Referring to the drawings, it will be noted that the referencenuineral 1 indicates a stocking; oi the so-called. toil-fashioned type. This is shown he formed With a seam 22 at the rear, this enitenthng from the toe to the top of the stocking.

lln order that this type eiiiciently and satiszt'acto. dried, shaped and finished, I have prorid d a hollow form 3 which is adapted to he heated by passii a thermal fluid therethrough. Preferably and as shown, this term has aroshuped at, these heing shaped to present oppositely-bulged fahric'fiattening surfaces which converge and terminate in a relatively re @5 duced crease-producing edge 5 which has the :t'uucti on to crease, shape and finish the front portion. 6 of the stocking.

The side surfaces of the form likewise converge at its opposite portion; hut, in this instance, instead oi terminating in a creaseproducing edge, lilre the edge 5, this opposite edge is flattened present a seam-ere gaging" surface 7 ext-ending longitudinally hosiery may he of the form from near its top 8 to a point adjacent to the base 9. The seam-engaging surface 7 is preferably and as shown of greater width than the surface at the edge 5 but of considerably less Width than the thickness of the middle portion of the form. It, therefore, follows that the sides of the forms are disposed so that they intersect the plane of the seam-receiving edge and that they extend at an angle thereto and outwardly therefrom.

When a stocking is placed upon a form constructed in accordance with my invention, the seam will be readily and actually lined up on the seam-engaging surface; and, by reason of the incidental stretching of the fabric as it is placed upon the form and the position of the seam-engaging surface with respect to the sides of the form, the seam of the goods is lined up into a crease or creaseformation that will be exactly opposite to the crease formed in the opposite side of the goods by the crease-producing edge 5 of the form. In consequence, the hosiery is given a single crease-formation at its front and rear, the crease-formation at the seam being not greatly if any out of proportion to that at the front of the goods.

From the above description, it will be seen that I have provided a hosiery-finishing form. of a novel construction and one particularly adapted to produce satisfactory crease-formations at its front and rear.

What I claim is:

l. A drying and shaping structure for treating hosiery including a hollow form to COlltull'l a heating medium and having its front portion provided With a crease-forming edge, the opposite edge being flattened to present a seam-engaging surface whereby the seam of the goods is internally lined up and into a crease-formation.

2. A drying and shaping structure for treating moistened full-fashioned hosiery comprising a hollow form to contain a heating medium and having sides which converge to a crease-forming edge at its front portion to crease the front of the oods, the opposite edge being approximatey flat to present a seam-engaging surface of a width less than the thickness of the form but greater than that of the crease-forming edge whereby the seam of the goods is lined up internally and set with a crease-formation opposite the crease in the front of the goods.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH G. PROSSER.

Witnesses:

A. BACKMAN, H. J. Gmsnnns. 

